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Farhang Erfani — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:01:56 +0000

THE EUROPEAN LEGACY: Volume 14, Issue 5 (2009)

We are pleased to announce the publication of the new (special topic) issue of “The European Legacy,” which is available online at:

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g914049653

Topic: Philosophy as Literature

Guest Editor: Costica Bradatan (The Honors College, Texas Tech University)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Articles:

“Introduction: Unorthodox Remarks on Philosophy as Literature”
By Costica Bradatan
Pages 513 – 518

“Of Poets and Thinkers: A Conversation on Philosophy, Literature and the Rebuilding of the World”
By Costica Bradatan; Simon Critchley; Giuseppe Mazzotta; Alexander Nehamas
Pages 519 – 534

“Hunting Plato’s Agalmata”
By Matthew Sharpe
Pages 535 – 547

“The Nexus of Unity of an Emerson Sentence”
By Kelly Dean Jolley
Pages 549 – 560

“The Concept of Writing, with Continual Reference to ‘Kierkegaard’”
By Mark Cortes Favis
Pages 561 – 572

“An Inhumanly Wise Shame”
By Brendan Moran
Pages 573 – 585

“Stanley Cavell and Two Pictures of the Voice”
By Adam Gonya
Pages 587 – 598

“Philosophy, Poetry, Parataxis”
By Jonathan Monroe
Pages 599 – 611

Review Essays:

“After the Abyss: Theory Lives On”
By Constance Eichenlaub
Pages 613 – 616

“Funny Masters”
By Sonia Arribas
Pages 617 – 620

“Ritual or Playful? On the Foundations of European Drama”
By Victor Castellani
Pages 621 – 631

Book Reviews:

Reviews by Nick Bentley; Ronald Bogue; Peter Burke; John Danvers; Christopher Irwin; Geoff Kemp; Martyn Lyons; David Malcolm; Gordon Marino; Amy L. Mclaughlin; Brian Nelson; Christian Roy; Paola S. Timiras; Eric White
Pages 633 – 646

An Alienation Artist: Kafka and His Critics

Farhang Erfani — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:28:43 +0000

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Critchley on Oscar Wilde

Farhang Erfani — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:36:00 +0000

Wilde’s extraordinary panegyric to Christ culminates in what he calls Christ’s ‘dangerous idea’. This turns upon the treatment of a sinner like Wilde himself. Christ does not condemn the sinner – “Let him of you who has never sinned be the first to throw the stone” – but rather sees sin and suffering as ‘being in themselves beautiful holy things and modes of perfection’. By this, Wilde does not mean that the act of sin itself is holy, but the transfiguration of this act that follows from the experience of long repentance and suffering. To this extent, and Wilde finds this a deeply un-Hellenic thought, one can transform one’s past through a process of aesthetic transfiguration or sublimation.

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Book Review: Derrida and Dante

Farhang Erfani — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:11:00 +0000

A review of Dante and Derrida: Face to Face (S U N Y Series in Theology and Continental Thought)

A challenge all interpreters face is finding a language in which to mediate understanding between the author they are interpreting and a contemporary audience. Erich Auerbach accomplished this by recovering and expounding the idea and practice of figura, which became the basis for path-breaking interpretations of Dante. Similarly, many scholars have brought forward passages in Thomas Aquinas that Dante echoes or likely had in mind and used them to explain the poem’s theological and philosophical grounding. Another example is the careful reconstruction of the cosmology of the Commedia, used to organize the entire structure of the Pardiso as well as for smaller functions like marking the passage of time or to convey a variety of other meanings. The advantage of such scholarly recoveries is that these are languages Dante himself spoke fluently. The disadvantage is that they may be so remote that they actually widen the distance of the contemporary reader from Dante. The more we understand Dante, the more we realize his thought presupposes ideas we may no longer believe and cannot share. One can try to relegate such erudition to footnotes where the ordinary reader can ignore it, but it is disconcerting to think that the more precisely one understands Dante, the more he seems so much of his time, the less he has to say to us.

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Literature, law and ethics – The case of Billy Budd

Farhang Erfani — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:55:45 +0000

A visiting legal ethicist talks to us about why a novella by Herman Melville, involving mutiny and an execution at sea, has become required reading for those interested in the intersection of literature, law and ethics.

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Comparative Literature and Culture, Vol 10 (1), 2008

Farhang Erfani — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:54:41 +0000

	Joseph S. Pinter On the Convergence of Innis’s International Political Economy and Sebald’s Novels
	Arina Lungu Marx, Postmodernism, and Spatial Configurations in Jameson and Lefebvre
	Eric Sipyinyu Njeng Achebe, Conrad, and the Postcolonial Strain
	María Odette Canivell Nation Building, Utopia, and the Latin American Writer/Intellectual
	Shimberlee Jirón-King Thompson’s and Acosta’s Collaborative Creation of the Gonzo Narrative Style

Colloquy Issue 15, June 2008

Farhang Erfani — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:14:15 +0000

Articles

“To use a metaphor at a time like this would be obscene”: a study of cancer, poetry and metaphor
Cathy Altmann

Burning Down the [Big] House: Sati in Sydney Owenson’s The Missionary
Frances Botkin

Wounded Space: Law, Justice and Violence to the Land
Jennifer Coralie

Seeing Stars: Reading Melancholy and Power at Madame Tussauds through the Lens of Hiroshi Sugimoto
Elizabeth Howie

Concrete Containment in Late Capitalism, Mysticism, the Marquis de Sade, and Phenomenological Anthropology
Apple Igrek

“Edging Back Into Awareness”; How Late it Was, How Late, Form, and the Utopian Demand
Dougal McNeill

Crisis of Memory

Traumatic Memory and Holocaust Testimony: Passing Judgement in Representations of Chaim Rumkowski
Adam Brown

Recreating Postmemory? Children of Holocaust Survivors and the
Journey to Auschwitz
Esther Jilovsky

Blurring the Boundaries: History, Memory and Imagination in the Works of W G Sebald
Diane Molloy

Contemporary Aesthetics: Volume 6 (2008)

Farhang Erfani — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:37:23 +0000

Articles are available here

Frederic Will — Can We Get Inside the Aesthetic Sensibility of the Archaic Past?
Maryvonne Saison — “The People Are Missing”
Thomas Leddy — The Aesthetics of Junkyards and Roadside Clutter
Emmanouil Aretoulakis — Aesthetic Appreciation, Ethics, and 9/11
Dan Disney — Toward a Poeticognosis: Re-reading Plato’s The Republic via Wallace Stevens’ “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven”
Jonathan Davis — Questioning “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”: A Stroll around the Louvre after Reading Benjamin
Grant Tavinor — Definition of Videogames
SYMPOSIUM: Danto’s The Transfiguration of the Commonplace Twenty-Five Years Later
Ivan Gaskell — The Riddle of a Riddle
Thomas E. Wartenberg — Not Just Mere Things
Cynthia Freeland — Danto and Art Criticism
Arthur C. Danto — Ontology, Criticism, and the Riddle of Art Versus Non-Art in The Transfiguration of the Commonplace

Farhang Erfani — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:44:58 +0000

TOC

Literary Theory in an Age of Globalization — Ihab Hassan

The Dramatic Sources of Philosophy — Amelie Oksenberg Rorty

Art and Evolution: Spiegelman’s The Narrative Corpse — Brian Boyd

Did God Deprive Pharaoh of Free Will? — Don Levi

The Worst Case of Knowing the Other?: Stanley Cavell and Troilus and Cressida — David Hillman

Literature, Politics, and Character — Oliver Conolly and Bashshar Haydar

Plot Taxonomies and Intentionality — Jon Adams

How Few Words Can the Shortest Story Have? — Amihud Gilead

“A little throat cutting in the meantime”: Seneca’s Violent Imagery — Amy Olberding

Of Literary Universals: Ninety-Five Theses — Patrick Colm Hogan

And more

Reading Blanchot

Farhang Erfani — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:51:08 +0000

Richard Crary has been reading Blanchot’s The Space of Literature and is sharing his thoughts.

Link to his blog: The Existence Machine